This master piece takes place in the achievement of my studies. It has been designed to deal with an experimental study among two random groups : a control and an intervention one. The main goal of this study is assessing whether the hypotherapy treatment has positive effects and consequences on childrens with cerebral palsy. Will ...»»»»

This master piece takes place in the achievement of my studies. It has been designed to deal with an experimental study among two random groups : a control and an intervention one. The main goal of this study is assessing whether the hypotherapy treatment has positive effects and consequences on childrens with cerebral palsy. Will be selected childrens with a kinesitherapy treatment in the health care center named « autour de l’enfant » based in Montpellier. Those childrens have been selected with two inclusion and exclusion criteria set up in advance. They will be randomly divided into two similar groups composed by 23 individuals each. One group will be the control group. Childrens from this group will receive a multidisciplinary treatment of kinesitherapy. The other one, the intervention one will receive the same treatment plus hypotherapy sessions once a week for 6 months. Along this whole study, 3 assessment periods will be operated among those two groups : at the same time and in the same conditions. The first one will occur before the beginning of the hypotherapy sessions among the intervention group, the second after 3 months and the third and last one at the end of the 6 months. At each of these moments, will be evaluated : - The spasticity thourgh Ashworth’s scale - The way of living thanks to KINDL test - The stress through the Youth Outcomes survey The spasticity will be assessed by physiotherapists and the surveys about the quality of living and the stress will be filled out directly by the parents themselves. Then, thanks to the SPSS Statistics program, the results will be analyzed through averages, standards and pourcentages. According to those results, conculsions will be given for underlining the effects of hypotherapy on the childrens with cerebral palsy. In an other hand, it’s important to mention that many hindrances can potentially affect the mainstream of our study : many factors can have consequences on our results, impacting directly our conclusions. In other words, some factors can create an hetereogenity among the childrens. That’s for instance the case when we talk about the health care center, from one children to another, the results of the hypotherapy can highly depends on the horse itself... As the hyptherapy is an outdoor method, our sessions will depend on the weather. Furthermore, the hypotherapy is an expensive treatment method and the social security or health care funds do not cover its cost. It also requires availability among parents who decide using this method. All these reasons lead to a lack of the number of childrens for achieving correctly this study. Key words : Childrens with cerebral palsy, Dano cerebral, hypotherapy, spasticity^^^^